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Lumifer comments on Crazy Ideas Thread - October 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 29 October 2015 06:12:58PM 0 points [-]

in the sense that everything is - we have uncertainty over the physical configurations.

But this has nothing to do with physical configurations. We have a set of two things -- to make things even simpler, let's make it a rock -- that differ in time. Unless you're going to posit some Time Lord who soars above the time line, assigning probabilities to time snapshots does not make any sense to me.